January 3, 2025 • 7 mins
Coach Hurley & Mike Crispino talk UConn MBB as Maui seems so far away with the win streak now at seven
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. The Huskies
on a major role. We talked to Dan Hurley on
Mike Crispino coach MAUI must seem like a way way
back memory, something you want to forget about, obviously, But
the Huskies have ripped off seven in a row now,
and they're starting to look like Yukon basketball pretty much
every night, the stuff we have seen over the last
(00:22):
couple of years with this squad. So tell us about
the turnaround, because it feels good to go out there
and start to look I think like what you would
like to see here in January and February and March.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah, I mean, we're just really just focusing on the
obvious positives here and Maoi was like a month ago
or more so. Obviously the team is. It's a younger team,
you know, it's especially for a high major team. I
think in almost every game that we've gone into, especially
against the high major opponents Big East and our conference
(01:00):
teams and Gonzaga, you know, we've got way more freshmen
and sophomores playing key roles for us, and it's just
one of those things where you know we've improved I
think although our defensive numbers, you know, overall still linger
in the mid nineties, since we've been back playing stateside here,
(01:23):
you know, we've played more to a top fifty, top
sixty defense, you know, with an offense that's obviously ranked
really high in.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Terms of efficiency.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And then you know, you get you know, players that
are just really developed and are becoming better two way
players like Liam. You know, Liam in prison proved so
much in terms of impacting winning. You know, is rebounding.
You know, it's ability to get to the paint, get
to the free throw line, create shots for others, make
(01:57):
big shots in the second half a game. You know,
Hassan has obviously, you know, stabilized you know, the point
guard position, which was in flux in November, at least
from a starting perspective. And you know, he's taken really
good care of the basketball. He's run our offense, he's
(02:17):
been opportunistic to go and playoff script some. You know,
we've gotten offensively, I think, really really good production out
of the center position. The productions there. You know, we
need to improve even more that way. I think, you know,
we need both Sampson and Taris to continue to get
better but you know, and then Caraban has played, uh
(02:38):
you know, when Caraban plays like a Big East Player
of the Year type or an All American type of player,
especially down the stretch of games. The way he's closed
some of these games, you know, it's made us. It
made us tough to beat. And in the seven game
win streak, only you know, one of those games was
against a low major. So you know, we've won seven
in a row, but six of those games have been
(03:00):
you know, three of them have been Big East games,
two on the road, and three of the others were
high major games, one.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
On the road at Texas.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So to be able to win six straight games versus
high major opponents is not something that we should you
should feel proud of that.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I'm proud of the team.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
And to your point, the last three opponents, when you
look at their rosters, were loaded with newbies, guys that
came from other places. Even as Sean Miller with Xavier
was talking about wanting to recruit guys who had been
to two other schools, he wanted that much maturity on
his roster, and Butler the same with that mana and
then to Paul Chris Holtman trying to put things back together,
(03:39):
there had thirteen new faces. I don't know if this
is you know, something you would be able to answer.
But do you feel like in some ways you have
a bit of an advantage in that you know your guys,
You've been working with most of them for two three years,
maybe four years, and in that sense, you're you know,
(04:00):
cohesion with your roster is maybe further along than say
Chris Holtman's with his crew.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, well, you know the I guess the it's the
new world we're in. I don't know that anyone. I
think in a perfect world, we would have established culture
and player development and things would be like the like
the old days where people would come into your program,
be with you for years, develop have continuity, have chemistry. Yeah,
(04:30):
but between the portal and nil where it's so it's
gotten so crazy the sport, whereas like your main fear
would be early entry to the NBA draft, it would
be your mau man, I'm a how long am I
going to have this player?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
That's probably the third.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Thing you think about now, you know, uh, you actually
hope that's your problem that you lose players early to
the NBA, and not that you know you don't have
enough money to retain or recruit, or you know, players
just leave you via free agency because there's no restrictions
(05:07):
whatsoever in our sport and it's just a total wild
wild West out there. So I mean, you know, for us,
we were an interesting case study on I guess for
this year's team on should we have gone out and
gotten more older players based on how much that we
lost and or is it better for you to, you know,
(05:30):
hold on to younger players, freshmen to sophomores and retain
and keep continuity. I think at the end of our season,
you know, when it's all said and done, it's going
to impact the decisions that we make moving forward how
this year plays out for us.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
But if you're in Chris Holtman's.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Situation where you're taken over for a team that was
really bad, you can go from really bad to a
top one hundred type of team really quickly, which is
the way he put that roster together, because there's so much,
so much better and mature and that you could see
the culture, you know, developing there. And then you had
(06:10):
somebody like like Sean Miller, who I think just went
out and got a lot of firepower on the perimeter
because he was missing it last year, and then you know,
was really hoping that he'd have better luck with front
court health, and unfortunately for him, he got bit, you know,
(06:31):
by that same injury bug in the front court. Hopefully
they get Fremantle back, but I don't know what the
best way to do it is going to be moving forward.
There's literally no rules in our sport. You know, from
reading Coach morris tweets, he's obviously been very active on Twitter,
you know, since the ballgame in particular, there's so much
chaos right now. It's tough tough to figure the best way.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Coach more also talking about, you know, the thing about
not Tampa with his players before they even go into
portal and even have to recruit your own players, which
maybe we'll get into that a little bit later on
Coach Hurley with us. This is the Yukon Men's Basketball
Coaches Show from Learfield back in a moment
Welcome to the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. The Huskies
on a major role. We talked to Dan Hurley on
Mike Crispino coach MAUI must seem like a way way
back memory, something you want to forget about, obviously, But
the Huskies have ripped off seven in a row now,
and they're starting to look like Yukon basketball pretty much
every night, the stuff we have seen over the last
(00:22):
couple of years with this squad. So tell us about
the turnaround, because it feels good to go out there
and start to look I think like what you would
like to see here in January and February and March.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah, I mean, we're just really just focusing on the
obvious positives here and Maoi was like a month ago
or more so. Obviously the team is. It's a younger team,
you know, it's especially for a high major team. I
think in almost every game that we've gone into, especially
against the high major opponents Big East and our conference
(01:00):
teams and Gonzaga, you know, we've got way more freshmen
and sophomores playing key roles for us, and it's just
one of those things where you know we've improved I
think although our defensive numbers, you know, overall still linger
in the mid nineties, since we've been back playing stateside here,
(01:23):
you know, we've played more to a top fifty, top
sixty defense, you know, with an offense that's obviously ranked
really high in.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Terms of efficiency.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And then you know, you get you know, players that
are just really developed and are becoming better two way
players like Liam. You know, Liam in prison proved so
much in terms of impacting winning. You know, is rebounding.
You know, it's ability to get to the paint, get
to the free throw line, create shots for others, make
(01:57):
big shots in the second half a game. You know,
Hassan has obviously, you know, stabilized you know, the point
guard position, which was in flux in November, at least
from a starting perspective. And you know, he's taken really
good care of the basketball. He's run our offense, he's
(02:17):
been opportunistic to go and playoff script some. You know,
we've gotten offensively, I think, really really good production out
of the center position. The productions there. You know, we
need to improve even more that way. I think, you know,
we need both Sampson and Taris to continue to get
better but you know, and then Caraban has played, uh
(02:38):
you know, when Caraban plays like a Big East Player
of the Year type or an All American type of player,
especially down the stretch of games. The way he's closed
some of these games, you know, it's made us. It
made us tough to beat. And in the seven game
win streak, only you know, one of those games was
against a low major. So you know, we've won seven
in a row, but six of those games have been
(03:00):
you know, three of them have been Big East games,
two on the road, and three of the others were
high major games, one.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
On the road at Texas.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So to be able to win six straight games versus
high major opponents is not something that we should you
should feel proud of that.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I'm proud of the team.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
And to your point, the last three opponents, when you
look at their rosters, were loaded with newbies, guys that
came from other places. Even as Sean Miller with Xavier
was talking about wanting to recruit guys who had been
to two other schools, he wanted that much maturity on
his roster, and Butler the same with that mana and
then to Paul Chris Holtman trying to put things back together,
(03:39):
there had thirteen new faces. I don't know if this
is you know, something you would be able to answer.
But do you feel like in some ways you have
a bit of an advantage in that you know your guys,
You've been working with most of them for two three years,
maybe four years, and in that sense, you're you know,
(04:00):
cohesion with your roster is maybe further along than say
Chris Holtman's with his crew.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, well, you know the I guess the it's the
new world we're in. I don't know that anyone. I
think in a perfect world, we would have established culture
and player development and things would be like the like
the old days where people would come into your program,
be with you for years, develop have continuity, have chemistry. Yeah,
(04:30):
but between the portal and nil where it's so it's
gotten so crazy the sport, whereas like your main fear
would be early entry to the NBA draft, it would
be your mau man, I'm a how long am I
going to have this player?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
That's probably the third.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Thing you think about now, you know, uh, you actually
hope that's your problem that you lose players early to
the NBA, and not that you know you don't have
enough money to retain or recruit, or you know, players
just leave you via free agency because there's no restrictions
(05:07):
whatsoever in our sport and it's just a total wild
wild West out there. So I mean, you know, for us,
we were an interesting case study on I guess for
this year's team on should we have gone out and
gotten more older players based on how much that we
lost and or is it better for you to, you know,
(05:30):
hold on to younger players, freshmen to sophomores and retain
and keep continuity. I think at the end of our season,
you know, when it's all said and done, it's going
to impact the decisions that we make moving forward how
this year plays out for us.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
But if you're in Chris Holtman's.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Situation where you're taken over for a team that was
really bad, you can go from really bad to a
top one hundred type of team really quickly, which is
the way he put that roster together, because there's so much,
so much better and mature and that you could see
the culture, you know, developing there. And then you had
(06:10):
somebody like like Sean Miller, who I think just went
out and got a lot of firepower on the perimeter
because he was missing it last year, and then you know,
was really hoping that he'd have better luck with front
court health, and unfortunately for him, he got bit, you know,
(06:31):
by that same injury bug in the front court. Hopefully
they get Fremantle back, but I don't know what the
best way to do it is going to be moving forward.
There's literally no rules in our sport. You know, from
reading Coach morris tweets, he's obviously been very active on Twitter,
you know, since the ballgame in particular, there's so much
chaos right now. It's tough tough to figure the best way.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Coach more also talking about, you know, the thing about
not Tampa with his players before they even go into
portal and even have to recruit your own players, which
maybe we'll get into that a little bit later on
Coach Hurley with us. This is the Yukon Men's Basketball
Coaches Show from Learfield back in a moment
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